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FEED BAG.

N0. 296,553. Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

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FEED-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,553, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed October 15, N3. (N model.)

.To aZl whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JAMES W. GEDNEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feed-Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in feed-bags; and the invention consists in'a feed-bag constructed in the manner-hereinafter shown, described, and claimed. In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a side view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view, partly in section; Fig. 3, a crosssection of ventilator. 7 It has been found difiicult to properly ven tilate feed or nose bags in a satisfactory manner, for the sides of the bag being generally made of canvas, the material offers an unstable foundation for the proper attachment of the ventilators. For the purpose of obviating this difficulty, I construct my feed or nose bag with canvas sides A, and in every other respect like the feed or nose bag in common use, excepting that in the front side of the bag, about midway between its top and bottom, I

' cut-out a portion of the canvas, leaving an opening. A suitable piece of leather, b, of

perforations are secured eyelets 0, arranged in any desired design. The leather 1) is next sewed on to the canvas bag and over the opening a, at once completing the bag and producing by this means ample ventilation.

The ventilator being practically as free tobend and fold up as is the canvas sides to which it is attached, it is apparent that the bag may 0 be folded or rolled up to reduce its bulk when not in use. Another advantage arising from the construction of my ventilator is that there are no rough metal edges or surfaces to injure the horse when the ventilator is being used.

I am aware that it is not new to insert ventilators in openings made in the front of feedba-gs; also, that it is older than my invention to provide a feed-bag with a perforated ventilating device the perforations in which are 50 armored with eyelets, and I do not make a claim of any such breadth or scope; but,

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improvedmanufacture, a canvas feedbag provided with a leather section inserted in the body of the bag, and having eyeleted perforations, all substantially as set forth.

JAMES Vi". GEDNEY.

Witnesses:

G. M. PLYMPTON, J ULIAN McV. ANDERSON. 

